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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Wait gets longer for rural mobile services
1,000 towers operational against targeted 2,307. New Delhi, Sept. 22 The rural mobile project supported by the Government’s Universal Services Obligation fund may get delayed, with operators so far meeting only 50 per cent of the targeted ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: Infotech Enterprises close to buy in Europe
Eyes opportunities in auto engg space. New Delhi, Sept. 22 Hyderabad-based Infotech Enterprises Ltd is close to acquiring a European company operating in the auto engineering space, for an estimated value of $30-40 ...

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Wireless printers have arrived
WiFi-powered printing possible on legacy printers too. Bangalore, Sept 22 As Internet access increasingly goes wireless — thanks to home, office and public WiFi hotspots — PCs are freeing themselves from Internet access cables. It ...

VIRUSES: Airtel offers free PC virus check
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OUTSOURCING: SocGen to invest more, double headcount
Bangalore, Sept. 22 French financial services group Societe Generale said it would more than double the headcount at its Global Solution Centre in Bangalore and invest about €5 million to develop a ...

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS: DoT sticks to sops for rural telephony
Rejects Finance Ministry’s demand for review. New Delhi, Sept 22 The disconnect between the Department of Telecom and the Finance Ministry over various policy issues has widened with the former rejecting a review of its decision to lower ...

OUTSOURCING: Lehman owes $1m to eClerx
Mumbai, Sept. 22 Investment banking major Lehman Brothers owes about $1 million in outstanding payments to its knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) vendor, eClerx ...

SOFTWARE: New tool for airlines
Mumbai, Sept. 22 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and an arm of aviation security firm ICTS International N.V., have launched a product for automatic document checking, through their partnership with the global airline association, ...

INTERNET: Online registration for IELTS exam
Hyderabad, Sept. 22The British Council has introduced new online registration system (NORS) for its IELTS, an examination in proficiency in ...

OUTSOURCING: eClerx faces Wall Street heat
Outsourcing from financial services remains uncertain. The mayhem on Wall Street has started to take a toll of Indian BPO/KPO players, with KPO services provider — eClerx Services reporting $1 million of receivables from a troubled US ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Vodafone Essar’s store in Aluva
Vodafone Essar has announced the launch of its first international format store in Aluva near Kochi. This is the first Vodafone Store in Kochi to sport a new look that aims to deliver a complete Vodafone experience to customers. This takes ...

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SECURITY: Bounce back — with back-up
A computer glitch in a global marketplace this month highlights the vulnerability of large data systems — even as system and storage security players join to even the odds of recurrence.. A catastrophic computer crash on September 9 ...

SECURITY: Perils of wireless Internet
Recent blasts expose the safety gaps in cyberspace and underscore the need for smart vigilance.. It is the same old story again. As in the case of a few past blasts, such as the series of UP explosions (November 2007) and Ahmedabad (August ...

INTERVIEW: Astrology, online
GaneshaSpeaks.com says this space, though at a nascent stage, is opening up.. Just under a decade ago, when the online matrimonial service was being talked about as a possibility, one could not but raise an eyebrow and look at it with ...

BOOKS: Welcome the ‘digital natives’
The world belongs to those born after 1980, so get tech savvy if you don’t want to be left out.. Soon, the world will belong to those “born after 1980, when social digital technologies, such as Usenet and bulletin board systems, ...

INTERVIEW: MphasiS – changing to a fresher-heavy structure
New CEO at the helm explains why the move makes sense in these times of slowdown.. It’s not a great year to take over as CEO of an Indian IT services company. The US economy, from which India derives about 50 per cent of its revenues, is ...

INTERVIEW: To your health
Texas Instruments on how chips are making a difference in healthcare.. Chips designed by researchers at TI India touch our lives in more ways than one, says the company. Besides spheres such as telecommunications, electronic gadgets and ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
V.V. Ramanan. 2. With which company would one associate the new enterprise desktop client called ...

CARTOON: Cartoon
“The way it’s going, we’ll buy your software only if it comes bundled with a technical ...






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